The month September was no more an ordinary month in the calendar of 2012 because of the 2nd Friday of this month which brought back the great privilege to The Quarterly Wheel Business Magazine to arrange the inter university business quiz competition for the 2nd time at the port city Chittagong. We know that everything comes to him who hustles while he waits and this time the aim was to upgrade the level of competition then the previous time. So, the preparation had started with more concentration under an experienced organizing committee and this time Mr. A Qaiyum Chowdhury, Associate Dean, EDU consented to lead the Quiz Competition Organizing Committee for this competition that comprised Chief Patron & Chief Editor of Wheel Mr. AZM Obaidullah, Chittagong Bureau Chief, faculty members of different well reputed Public & private universities of the city, enthusiastic CGMs of Wheel & volunteers.

Total 33 teams from different universities participated this time in the quiz competition. The venue was Regional Public Administration Training Centre Chittagong, Bangladesh & the sponsors and partners were Invite Group, SKAN Group, International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC), and CVO Petro Chemicals. Dainik Jugantor, Radio Today 89.6 FM & Diganta Television, JIC Securities wholeheartedly joined as media partners.

At last, the momentous day came with great excitement among all the teams. They reported at 09.00 am on the registration desk & like the previous year the inauguration session was started by the Chittagong Bureau Chief & the Chief Editor along with the Editor, Convener and special guest, the Dean of the Business Faculty of Chittagong University, Mr. Md. Abu Taher inaugurated the competition. Finally, the moderators were welcomed by the anchors for handling the question answer session in slides which contained a built in clock as a reminder for time limit for each question. This time the questions were made more consistent than the previous time. The adjudicators played an authoritarian role in every round to avoid any unfairness in the final round. Each & every team tried their level best; some of them failed to give right answer in some questions, tried again to proceed with full confidence and team spirit and thus could score their desired marks. All the teams ere involved with rest of the teams’ participation as they noticed when something reappeared and thus the processes were more transparent and yes, democratic. This time double anchoring and chit picking by the audiences always kept the sitting part of the people cent percent involved. Even the Editor of Wheel Mr. Zahirul Islam remained engaged and occupied throughout the program with the organizing committee with his valuable directions

It was a very neck to neck competition in the 1st round among the participating teams and the result was declared after the Juma prayer & lunch. Among the 33 teams 8 teams could make it to the semi final round where amazingly 6 teams were from CU and the rest two teams were from DU & EDU. But, when the question came to seal the title of champion and have the benefit of the lucrative prize money as a wining team, the discontentment became the first necessity of progress among them. This time the most interesting thing was the format of the competition was not disclosed to the teams and the teams were divided into 8 groups in the first round, then 8 teams in the semi-final and the fantastic four gave their best shots in the finals. Besides scoring pattern, number of questions and questions varied at each level that made the competition unpredictable.

Thus, the Prize distribution ceremony started in the evening after the Chief Guest Mr. Salauddin Kashem Khan, Honorable Managing Director of A.K. Khan & Company Limited arrived. At last, the anchors announced the name of the winning team & the 2 runners up team. The audience praised & applauded them. The team from EDU protected their position as the 2nd runners up (Tk. 5000). And, after the deadly & neck to neck fight in the tie breaker round between the teams CU & DU, CU healed them by grabbing the Champion’s position (Tk. 10000). Though DU could not end up as Champion but they provided tough fight in each round to every team and hold the position of the 1st runner up (Tk. 7000).

The Chief Guest encouraged the vigorous effort of the entire team of Wheel for making the Business Quiz program a success for the second time. The Bureau Chief, Editor, Chief Editor, the moderators & Adjudicator & the champion team leader addressed the gathering with great enthusiasm & the crests to the Chief Guest & to the sponsor were handed over by the Chief Editor & the Chief Guest. The winners & participants received their prizes from distinguished guests.

After the success of the first competition, for the second time at stretch Wheel has brought educationists, students from different universities & business conglomerate groups in the shed of a common umbrella through this business quiz competition by making the competition innovative and challenging & thus maintaining the expectation of all.